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Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films

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  • I will be sad to the end of days that Moth of Moonbi got away from me.
  • The 2 Bounty posters are incredible. Here's another great cricket daybill, artwork by Dempsey.



  • Great unknown poster to me, until now, and thanks for sharing

     This rare Don Bradman In How I Play Cricket long daybill was released in 1932 and is a short film. After doing some checking found this unframed image of the poster.

     ( State Library Of South Australia )
  • I once had this 1 sheet circa late 40's. It went to the State Library of Victoria, they were quite happy to get it.



  • HONDO said:

     # 30a  # 30b

     White Death ( 1936 ). Another very rare film to find posters for.



    ( Everyones September 30, 1936 edition / Trove  ). This 24 sheet White Death poster would have looked great when originally displayed.

     

    ( Everyones November 18, 1936 edition / Trove ).  Is the above an original theatrical one sheet?
  • great images, thanks for sharing

  • HONDO said:
     # 13. Orphan Of The Wildeness ( 1936 ). No posters sighted but this is nice.
     

    Everyones August 26, 1936 issue / Trove ),

    What the Australian 24 sheet looked like.

    There must be a daybill out there somewhere.
  • I don't have a copy close to hand but doesn't the NFSA Australian film poster book have the Orphan 1 sheet in it?
  • darolo said:
    I don't have a copy close to hand but doesn't the NFSA Australian film poster book have the Orphan 1 sheet in it?
     

    Best I can come up with. Anyone have a clearer larger image of the poster? 
  • From the book...my copy is falling apart!  Need a new one


  • Thanks Ves for posting . A nice looking poster produced by the hands of prolific poster artist Frank Tyler and it is extremely rare.
  • HONDO said:
      # 17. Splendid Fellows ( 1934 ) Australian trade magazine advertisement. Very rare and the only paper with some colour sighted.

    I'm happy to see all paper, even if no colour is involved!
     ( Trove )

    What an Australian colour daybill would have looked like.
  • That would have been a beauty!
  • Different era, but I think this is a pretty rare daybill of an Australian movie.


  • May be an image of 1 person and text that says EALING STUDIOS Present Sweeping Drama OF AUSTRALIAS GOLDRUSH EUREKA STOCKADE CHIPS JANE RAFFERTYBARRETT BARRETT JACK LAMBERT GORDON JACKSON PETER ILLING RALPH TRUMAN PETER FINCH KEVIN BRENNAN GRANT TAYLOR AL THOMAS  HARRY WATT AMICHAEL BALCON Production ProductionEzecutive ERIC WILLIAMS DISTRIBUTED ZEALAND EMPIRE FILMS FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION PRIESMITHLTSYONY


    May be an image of 2 people and text that says SWEEPING DRAMA OF AUSTRALIAS GOLD RUSH EUREKA AUING STUDIOS STOCKADE CHIPS RAFFERTY JANE BARRETT FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION L

    Here's a challenge for Lawrence? Any detail about these eureka Stockade daybills? The second one I own, but the top one just turned up with a friend. I hadn't seen it before. Both Smith printer so maybe two dfferent images were done at the same time?

  • Rick said:

    Here's a challenge for Lawrence? Any detail about these eureka Stockade daybills? The second one I own, but the top one just turned up with a friend. I hadn't seen it before. Both Smith printer so maybe two dfferent images were done at the same time?

    Both daybills I am sure would have been printed at the same time. I base this on the following.

    A ) The ''Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by British Empire Films'' credit in this form was only used in this format for a short period of time which included the time Eukeka Stockade was released in Australia.

    B )  Both films designed by Frank Tyler.

    C) BEF were known from the 1930s through to the 1960s to produce for some of their bigger titles two different first release daybill versions, Many examples are available to check out by searching the forum thread ''Two different original styles of the same daybill designs.'' 

    D ) Both the ''For General Exibition'' censorship presention are the same. 

    E ) The tagline of ''Sweeping drama of Australian's gold rush appears'' on both posters. 

    F) The original Australian one sheet poster resembles more the newly found daybill version than the earlier known daybill version.



    Your daybill version has been viewable for a long time, so this new daybill version find has to be super rare.  .
  • Rick, tell your friend the House of Babic needs that daybill...while you are at it, you can send yours along with it ;)
  • The House of Bayne would also like it, but alas no luck.
  • Thanks Hondo for your information.
  • HONDO said:

                                                                       # 12 ( a ). It Isn't Done ( 1937 ) daybill.      # 12 ( b ). It Isn't Done ( 1937 ) one sheet.

    Both very desirable Australian film posters of this title.




    (Everyones February 3 ,1937 issue  / Trove )

    An advance Australian printed teaser 24 sheet of It Isn't Done. This style of poster was displayed  only briefly in 1937, before being replaced by a regular 24 sheet version of the film. 

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    Original Australian daybill of A Son Is Born ( 1946 ) and modern day usage of a poster also original, but I am unaware of the original origins of this  poster. Is it a one sheet poster or perhaps some trade magazine advertising?



     

    ( State Library of N.S.W./ Trove / Sam Hood collection )

    24 sheet poster.

  •  ( Everyones May 26, 1937 edition  / Trove )

    Tall Timbers ( 1937) original Australian daybill and 24 sheet reproduction poster. 


     

    Tall Timbers 1953 Australian re-release daybill and one sheet posters. A more superior artwork presentation was applied to the one sheet by the printer  F. Cunninghame. than they did with the daybill.

    It appears that the re-release one sheet was adapted from the original 1937 one sheet artwork. The re-release daybill though is interesting in that the actors original credits are completely switched around in their order of presentation 
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      ( Everyones / Trove )

    Two Minutes Silence ( 1933 ) publicity poster artwork similar to the Australian 6 sheet film poster. This example should give you an idea as to what the three reproduction posters following below would hace looked like in colour. And also a trade magazine advertisement placed for the film on January 31, 1934.

     ( Everyones / Trove )

    Currently listed as a lost film.
  • I will be sad to the end of days that Moth of Moonbi got away from me.
    Wow, Moth of Moonbi is quite lovely.  Who was the artist, if known?  Okie

  • okie said:
    I will be sad to the end of days that Moth of Moonbi got away from me.
    Wow, Moth of Moonbi is quite lovely.  Who was the artist, if known?  Okie

    As it was unsigned most likely we will never know the answer to that.

  • The original Tall Timbers is much nicer than the reissue


  •  

    ( Joyonthego )

    Extremely rare Waltzing Matilda ( 1933 ) Australian daybills. These posters were discovered, and had been used to cover the walls in one room, when renovating a cottage in Tasmania about now 13 years ago. They were stuck to hessian face down for 75 years.

    There were multiple copies of other circa 1933 daybill posters discovered as well. They were originally  from the local Paragon Theatre in Queenstown, which had opened in 1933.

    I am sure the Australian National Film And Sound ( NFSA ) Archive would love a copy of a Waltzing Matilda daybill which they could restore.

    If you haven't visited the forum thread from August 2018 titled ''My fave find!'' which covered the find, or would like to revisit. it is well worth while doing so. 


  • even damaged, I'd love one of those Waltzing Matildas
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